Decatur Democrat, Volume 40, Number 10, Decatur, Adams County, 22 May 1896 — Page 9

She democrat DKOATUH, IND. K. RLACPIUBN, . . . Pmurinii, Atameda* Cal., bon sts of a ghost that I rides a bicycle. Probably a “scorcher” I straight from hades. ▲ Grand Rapids florist has been offered |IO,OOO fora new carnation he has developed. This must be the pink of perfection. The wife of the Governor of Califoraia io out with a denunciation of bloomore. There seems to be one Budd which doeon't care to bloom. Mr. Madison’s hired girl has a new Kiir of shoes, says the Grafton (N. D.l ecord. Somebody ought to call Mrs. Madison’s attention to this. ▲ theatrical contemporary annoum that “Satan’s Kingdom” was wreck,in New Jersey the other day. The fragments ought to feel quite at home there; A fashion paper says that “the most tyllsh bonnet this year will be a soil sf poke.” The effects of the poke, as\ ■sual, will be felt quite distinctly in the pocketbook. > An envious St. Louis contemporary asserts that “several Chicago families have joined a colony in the Holy Land, but no one In Chicago knows where it Is.” Jerusalem! .And now they say that the Venezue- [ lan blue book has been tampered with, c ind that the facts have been distorted. ! We are not surprised; the Schomburgk 3 line Itself was crooked. A Chicago man claims to have invented a device by which prize fighting can be made perfectly harmless. Corbett unit Fitzsimmons probably are using Mils Invention on the quiet. About the time when the European bowers have got Africa evenly divided, tleared up the Oriental problem, reformed China and decided how to regard the Monroe doctrine they may be Ible ro take a hand in protecting misllonaries and Armenians in Turkey. ; A New York newspaper mentions George Munro, founder of the dime 1 Itne/ lMlt\lft fWera‘dfbowte Jmlves, ' Winchester rifles, sombreros and war taint? An Ohio man shut himself up in his ifflcs safe in order to avoid the solicitations of a life insurance agent. The latter was patient and remained in the tffice over an hour, and when ho depart»d It was discovered that the man in the safe was unconscious. He is in i very critical condition and liable to lie, and his family are very sorry that the life insurance man didn’t catch him tor a big policy. We expect to see this Itory in the repertoire of every enterprising life insurance man. The New York Sun takes an extreme Illustration to bring into disrepute the methods for "spelling reform” that are being urged by Funk and W T agnalls. Rule 1 is all the Sun was asked to subscribe to and this rule is: “Change final ed to t when so pronounced; and, If a double consonant precedes, drop one of the consonants.” An unadorned refusal would have filled all the requirements of the case, but instead the Bun takes this passage: “He pressed her to his bosom and asked her to be his bride. Without a word she suddenly buued him on the mouth.” And declines to aid the reform because the mles would make the ’passage read: “He prest her to his bosom and askt her to be hte bride. Without a word she luddenly bust, him on the mouth.” This la trifling with a great movement The altuation would not arise that would make this passage possible. In such a case ahe would not buss him on the tiouth, but invite him to do the bussing. But even If she bussed him, a man who defers asking her to be his bride until he has pressed her to his bosom delervea to be bust. One hundred years ago in Franklin, Mass., Horace Mann was born. His life was too . all of devotion to humanity for him to be forgotten. "Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity,” he said to his graduating class at Antioch College. This was the keynote of his own existence, and, actually by his own bard experiences in the way of knowledge, he left the greatest impress of his time upon the cause of-education. As student, lawyer, educator, abolitionist and politician he remained ataiays close to his charge, and while secretary of the Massachusetts State Board of Education he did perhaps his fullest work. He said of this time, between June, 1837, and May, 1848, when he tendered his resignation to the ’board: “1 labored in this cause an average of not less than fifteen hours a day; from the beginning to the end of this period I never took a single day for relaxation, and months and months together passed without my withdrawing a single evening to call upon a friend.” In these busy years his influences for education were impressed upon the statutes of the old Bay State; he instituted the normal school; he established county educational conventions; he did much to abrogate corporal punishment In schools, and by his lectures and writings he awakened an interest in education such as never before had been aroused.. Observances of such anMverearies as this of Horace Mann are

not only commendable, as In keeping with the Influences of the man’s life, but In this particular case the observance appeals to a young generation which is more susceptible to the spirit of gratitude and quicker to respond to its benignity than are many of larger grow’th. L J “ A recent Colorado l>ank failure was due, as a great many others have been, mainly to the fact that the officers were devoting themselves largely to outside speculation instead of attending strictly to business. It doos not pay to have too many irons In the fire. Some of the largest and most influential operators learn the lesson by bitter experience. Not long ago a big Chicago packer saw Stock Exchange operators were paying 9 per cent, interest for carrying and transferring trades around the efid of each month, and so he thought he saw a good chance to profitably employ some capital. He went Into the moneylending business on a large scale, but soon found that in giving necessary ac•ommodatlons to traders he was getting excessive interest part of the time and no interest at all a part of the Itime, and it did not take him long to see that it was not such a snap as it had looked from the outside. It is always so. Some other fellow’s business, of which one can opjy see the showy side, always looks inviting, and people are continually 'enticed into placing their money into things tyhlch, if understood as well as their own affaire, they would never touch. Experimental losses are made continually by men of great wealth, but they can usually stand it, whereas the small fry who tail on after them “go broke” over and over again. Another story of oriental intrigue and treachery is put on record with the death of the Shah of Persia at the hand of a revolutionary fanatic. The assassin who sought his life found him en-i tering a shrine near Teheran and killed, him Instantly. Nasir-ed-Din, Shah, 1 who was not a Persian, but a Turk by descent, was the fourth sovereign of the Kajar dynasty, the ruling family in Persia for over 100 years. He entered upon his reign in 1848, and, considering the absolutely despotic powers which he wielded, it must be conceded that he was a fairly humane and responsi-, ble ruler. The entire governing system of Persia embraces a series of autocrats, ranging from the Shah to the head men of the small villages. Each potentate is a law unto himself, the only check upon his actions being the foreign opinion. The shrewdness of the dead Shah was shown in the fashion in which he observed European customs on his various incursions into lands of modern civilization and the way in which he imbibed the lessons of diplomacy. The Shah, with all his vagaries and shortcomings and his semi-bar-baric manners, is conceded to have been one of the firmest and least tyrannical rulers Persia has had, and there will be considerable doubt whether his successor will prove to be so satisfactory. The heir apparent, who, by the way, is not the eldest of the Shah’s sons, is Muzaffer-ed-Din. He was born in 1853. and in accordance with Persian custom has been kept in partial sequestration. It is doubtless due to this fact that Europe has heard so many various stories as to his mental incapacity and unfitness for rulership. The Hon. George Curzon is authority for the statement that the young heir is in reality a man of considerable intelligence and breadth and a capacity for adopting European ideas. However this may be, a change of dynasty in Persia, with the Immemorial Oriental habits of intrigue and assassination is never accomplished without some disturbance. and the young Shah’s path will not be without difficulties. He has neither the experience nor the range of observation which enabled the dead Shah to govern Persia with reasonabh success.

A Lee-Metford Bullet. Prof. Boys, of London, recently delivered an illustrated lecture in which he showed photographs of the Lee-Met-ford bullet as it passed through a quar-ter-inch sheet of glass. Just before the bullet touched the sheet the air wave cut a disk of glass about half an inch In diameter clean out. At the same time the glass around the hole was crushed into powder and driven back at an extremely rapid rate. The glass stuck to the bullet for a short time after It had passed through, the disk being driven out in front of the “bow wave.” In this experiment tlie waves caused by the vibrations of the glass were plainly shown. A photograph of the bullet after It had cleared the glass by nine inches showed the remainder of the (jlass intact, but when the bullet had proceeded another sixteen inches the sheet of glass was seen to break and fall in fragments.—Philadelphia Record. Important Correction. Under the«“Terror,” in France, people learned to be excessively cautious in all they said, and still more cautious iu what they wrote. An old letter is said.to be in existence of the revolutionary period, in which the author had at first written to a friend, “I write under the reign of a great emotion.” Then, apparently reflecting that h was dangerous to speak of “reigns” at such an epoch, he amended the sen tence thus: “I write under the republic of a great emotion.” “They say that love ta blind," sighed the engaged girl. “If he wasn’t,” replied her envious friend, “some people would never have a chance to get married."—Chicago Evening Post,

PAD FLOUR DETECTED PROCESS OF MOST SCIENTIFIC EXACTITUDE. the “Teeter” Can Tell if Their la a Blight Change in the Manufacture of the Flour—ls an Analyst, a Miller and a Baker. A Teat Made Each Morning. In a building in Minneapolis is a man who lias the power to say that this flour can be manufactured and this cannot. He is the flour inspector, and each morning gives some attention to the samples that are brought to him to test. He can tell when the slightest change has been made at the mill, and often orders a mill not to manufacture a certain kind of flour. Tills Inspector of necessity is an analyst, a miller and a baker. It is tlie duty of this tester or “inspector,” as he is technically known, to take these samples of wheat each day and ascertain first what proportion of gluten light and dark, what proportion of pure starch, and what of mixed starch and gluten they contain. The germ at the center of the kernel is the vital life principle; the gluten is the most Important commercial as well as economic element, that which makes for wealth of purse and health of body, and mind as well. In the inspector’s room at one hand is a tiny roller mill, run by electricity, a duplicate, in miniature, of the grinding machinery of the large mill. The wheat from one of the sacks is ground in this mill, the steel rollers crushing luOlmmi Ml! j. MAX WHO TESTS THE FLOUR. the kernels into a flaky dust Below the rollers are silk sieves which separate the bran from the flour. When the flour has been secured it is washed the Inspector knows when he has finished his washing, by the amount of the gluten residuum, whether the wheat of the day is up to the required standard in this respect or not. The gluten thickens or solidifies into a little patty, about the size of a toothsome marshmallow, and about the color of a maple sugar caramel, but having more nutriment in it than all the candy you could eat in a month. It is very nearly- the color of the wheat kernel as it. lie&.tn a round disc on the piece of silk where it has been collected. But not only must the Inspector know by color, weight and consistency as to the quality of the gluten—he must bake it as well. The inspector carefully weighs out sixteen ounces of flour. It must be exact to the fraction of a gram. He mixes this with water in a white earthen bowl, ten ounces of water to the sixteen of flour. He is planning for a pound loaf, and when he turns it out of the tin fully baked it will be such a one—if the flour is what it should be. He does not knead the floifri at allsingular statement to a housewife —he pulls it, as candy is pulled. Fifty pulls mixes it thoroughly. At the end of sixty minutes the loaf is found to be baked through and STifc ~ All SI THE ELECTRIC OVEN. through, with no trace of dough or heaviness. Then it must be weighed and measured. It must be so many inches high, so many long; so many inches around It one way. so many the other. This loaf of bread is subject to iron-clad rules from the time it enters the tiny mill as- whe tt until it stands before the inspector as a finished loaf. ■ When the loaf is cooled it is cut open for inspection. It must be of just the right hue, inside as well as out. If the inspector finds it has a peculiarly white interior, he knows that there is too much starch, too little gluten. Your ideal flour does not make the chalky white’bread so many people have comb to consider the best. All around the inspector’s rooms are shelves on which are glass Jars of samples of each day’s flour. Each sample is labeled with tlie details of the various tests. The jars ;ire kept six months. If in that time a dealer in Liverpool or Havana, or Niw York, or some little lowa town for that matter, reports that liis patrons complain of the flour ground on a certain date* a re-, quest is made for a sample of the flour. When it is received the inspector subjects it to precisely the same test he gives to all his flour. Then, after he has washed and baked and color-tested it, he takes the little reeohl jar showing what the flour of the mills was like .on the day of the manufacture of this

particular lot of flour anti compares this record with that of the test of the flour under suspicion. Immediately he knows from the agreement or the disparity of the two flours -wh filler the consumer has made groundless complaint j>r whether some unscrupulous dealer Is trying to palm off an inferior grade of flour upon the consumer. HONORING SOLDIERS. Bronze Statues as Tributes to th< Memory of the Nation’s Heroes. Two new equestrian statues are those of Gen. Winfield Scott Hancoci and (Jen. John M. Corse. That of Gen. Hancock was designed by 11. .1. Ellicott, of Washington, who will receive $49,000 for the monument, “L f zf z V STATUE OF GEN. HANCOCK. complete. The casting was done by the Gorham Manufacturing Company, in Providence, 11. 1., and the statue was shipped to Washington in fourteen pieces, weighing 7,200 pounds. It rests upon a pedestal of red granite in Pennsylvania avenue, Washington, near Seventh street. The sculptor has depicted “Hancock the Superb” as he appeared on the morning of the last day at Gettysburg. It was on that day that the gallant soldier was severely wounded while making a successful charge. The equestrian statue of Gen. John M. Corse, which is to adorn the base of the lowa soldiers’ monument at Des Moines, was cast by the American Bronze Company. The sculptor is Carl Rohl Smith, whose successful figure of Gen. Sherman recently disturbed the complacency of Eastern competitors. A second casting is in progress for Burlington, lowa, the birthplace of Gen. Corse, to cost $5,000, which a force of only 1,500. men, and with this small garrison he successfully repelled a Confederate division of 6,000, which had suddenly attacked his position. Sherman’s famous signal. “Hold the fort, for I am coming;” was diskfll k \ z STATUE OF GEN. CORSE, played during this engagement. Gen. Corse was severely wounded, but continued to repulse the enemy. He was personally complimented by Sherman and Grant for his distinguished services and was breveted major general.

MAKE WHISTLES FOR THE BOYS. How Noise-Producers Maj’ Be Manufactured from a Willow Twig. Every boy may have a whistle, and one that will make noise enough to suit the most exacting youngster. The whistles may be made from a short slip- cut from a willow tree or twig. Whistles are made the same way everywhere. A smooth limb or sucker is selected and cut off. The mouth end is trimmed right, a notch is cut in the top for the escape of the breath, a ring is cut in the bark at the right distance from the end and then the bark is moistened with saliva and the whistle is laid on the knee and pounded with the knife handle to loosen the bark from the wood. A twist of the bark pulls it off the wood and then a deep notch is cut - now THE WHISTLE'IS GUT. out of the wood, the bark is put on and the. whistle is finished. Many a man’s most pleasant memories are of the happy days he spent in boyhood in the. creek bottoms making willow whistles. In 4000 B. C. “That’s just what I like." Ramesis rubbed his palms and smiled on the’artist who. had completed the interior, decorations' of the pyramids. "Those poster effects give the whole place a chic and tiu-de-sieele appearance that is delightfully up-to-date.” Yet people talk as if Beardsley had Invented something new.—Truth. There is too much say it, and too little prove it, in this world.

; President Fatire. of France* tan-great lover of horses. The Queen of the Belgians plays the harp exquisitely. ' According to Hamilton W. Mabie, the (“Scarlet Letter” and “Pembroke” are Ithe best American novels. The late Lord Leighton took infinite pains with his lectures on art, rewriting one of them thirteen times. The most 3ostly bicycle in the world has been presented to the Queen of Italy.. The wheels are of pure gold. Napoleon 111, said to Octave Feuillet: “To one returned from America everybody in Europe seems to be asleep.” Conan Doyle scorns the typewriter, and makes all hls copy with pen and ink. His average day’s work is 1,500 words. Editor Charles A. Dana, of the New York Sun, has sailed for Europe. He will spend some time at Moscow studying Russian. Manchester is about to erect an equestrian statue to Sir Charles Halle, the musical conductor, who never mounted a horse in his life. M. E. Blanc, a French traveler, has recently given to the Paris museum two beautiful Persian manuscripts found in Bokhara. M. Joseph Hallman, the celebrated French ’celloist, recently gave a successful concert iN Paris, assisted by Madam Emma Eames. Judge Albion W. Tourgee has undertaken a crusade against books with uncut leaves, which he pronounces “a senseless and snobbish fad.” Marshal Frey, of the Baltimore police department, has been in the service of the city for thirty years, and has had two weeks’ vacation nr that time. Postmaster General Wilson is the most studious member of the Cabinet He goes into society very little, and spends most of his leisure in his library. Mrs. Johiah M. Fiske’s graduate scholarship in Bernard College will go to the most satisfactory student in political science each year. It is worth $250. Gladstone is under a pledge to his physicians never to make another pub1i c .sppwji. jj.fl Irt fi in “jT -tbafi -A Huge Python Swallows One that Was Attached to a Chain. An animal store in Williamsburg, N. Y., was recently the scene of a tragic affair, the suicide of a huge python. During the night the monster reptile broke out of his box and swallowed a frisky monkey that was chained in a cage set close to the ceiling. The python. In common with the other great constricting snakes, has the peculiarity that he can swallow an object of great size, but cannot relinquish anything. If he swallows a tin can he is obliged to keep it. The Jaws are joined by very elastic Cartilage. which permits them to open to a great width, but the sharp teeth all point backward toward the throat, and nothing can pass out between them. The python had caught the chained monkey, killed and quickly swallowed him: Then he tried to move away, and found himself held by a stout i 1 ''i ii | \\>\\ A PYTHON THAT HANGED ITSELF. ■ , chain. He struggled violently and thereby caused himself to ehoke more quickly. The torn and bruised condition of his body showed that he had dashed himself furiously against surrounding objects. j ‘ t . - TRichest Man in the World. Mr. John B. Robinson of South Africa is said to be the richest man in the world. His fortune is estimated at £70.000,000 ($340,620.000V. In 1878 Robinson was in debt. He had kept a grocery store in the Orange Free State, but he could slot make both ends meet. He and his wife begged their way for 300 miles to Kimberly. Here Robinson laid the foundation of his enormous fortune by picking up a rough diamond worth £2.~»0 ($1,216). Hallam a Precocious Boy. Hallam, while a boy at school, planned his "History of the Middle Ages,” and began the work while in college. We never knew a mother who was not sorry for her mar-'

MRS. MAYBRICK. A Brief Review of a Remarkable Murder Case. No criminal case In recent history has created more extended interest than that of Mrs. Florence Maybrick, an American woman, convicted in England on the charge of murdering her husband, Thomas Maybrick, an Englishman, residing in Liverpool. Mrs. Maybjfick is now serving a life sentence for the alleged crime. Ever since her conviction, in 18,89, a large number of persons,. In England and In this country, firmly believing her innocent, have labored most energetically to secure her release. Repeated failures have served only to impel these devoted friends to more determined efforts, and it is now reported that success is to he their reward. It is a most remarkable case, and the new phase it has taken will make a. brief recital of It of timely interest. At the age of 17 Miss Chandler, daughter of W. G. Chandler, a banker of Mobile, Ala., was married to James Maybrick, a Liverpool broker, 44 years of age. The couple apparently lived happily together for a number of years. Two children, a boy and girl, were born to them. * April 27, 1889, Maybrick was taken ill and his wife nursed him tenderly until he died. Then she swooned and was unconscious for for-ty-eight hours. The doctors said death was caused by gastroenteritis, but twe brothers of Maybrick and some of his women acquaintances averred that Mrs. Maybrick had poisoned her husband. She was placed under arrest before she recovered from the shock of her husband's death, and was speedily tried. The trial developed the fact that Maybrick was a habitual user of poisons, particularly arsenic; but the post-mortem did not disclose any of the drug in his stomach. About onetenth of a grain was found in the liver and other parts of the body by a government analyst. Testimony was also introduced to show that husband and x ■v - * MRS. MAYBRICK. wife had quarreled a short time before his death; that there had been talk of a scandal between them and that he had made a will making his brothers universal legatees of hls property for the benefit of his children. The trial took place before Justice Sir Fitzjames Stephens, an irascible jurist, who was said to have been insane and who afterward left the bench on account of his mental failings and died. Mrs. Maybrick's counsel was Sir Charles Russell, now lord chief justice of England. Judge Stephens, in his charge to the jury, was so evidently prejudiced against the prisoner that his remarks caused general comment. They apparently influenced the jury and they returned a verdict of guilty in thirty-eight minutes, and the punishment .was fixed at death. Owing to the circumstances of the case there arose a storm of protests in England and this country, and efforts to secure a rehearing of the case were begun. Unable to stand the pressure Home Secretary Matthews commuted the sentence of death to imprisonment for life. When the Liberal government came into power. Home Secretary Asquith was asked by Gail Hamilton, to re-open the case. She presented petitions signed by members of President Harrison's cabinet and other persons of influence. He refused to take any action and even tlie efforts of the officials of the United States proved unavailing. With undaunted persistence the friends of Mrs. Maybrick kept up their efforts, and if. as has been reported. they are to be awarded a victory, there will be few among those who have followed the case who will not rejoice at their success. Quickly Americanized. A county superintendent of schools iu Northwestern Minnesota, where a fourth township is a school dis- >• trict, relates a peculiar incident. On a tour of inspection he found one school district that had only one family living in it, and the head of that family was a homesteader who was not required to pay taxes. He was of course the school director of that district. The other lands in the district were owned by speculators who lived in St. Paul and elsewhere, and paid the taxes. The-yvife of the homesteader was drawing from the county S4O per month as schoolteacher, and her only pupils were'her own two children. Being asked who appointed her. slie replied, “The school director." and beingTrsked who he was, she replied, "My husband. ’ The husband and wife, school director and schoolteacher, were Norwegians. and yet there are persons who think that foreigners do not "catch on to our systems” as rapidly as they should. tlndertakec in Hard Lines. The -books of a Kansas undertaker don’t balance, and he cannot account for fourteen bodies he,has accepted for btirial. The lawyers do not know whether to charge him with-embezzle-uient or not—Cincinnati Tribuue.